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I finally got to fly again after 4 months of being down. Three weeks ago my orthopedist game me a letter to give to the flight surgeon on a Friday. I scanned and emailed it to the flight surgeon on the following Monday. Because our flight surgeon is not full time, it took a little while to...

Except the Medevac HH-60s. We don't even have door gunner windows. Unless you count an M4 or an M9 shooting out of the bubble airvent a door gunner. LOL:D Oh, and we own a whole different kind of up close and personal. If you're squeemish, never turn and look back over your shoulder.

For active duty, it is strictly order of merit. For national guard, you will fly one of the airframes your unit has, period. Can you be forced to fly Apaches? Not if you finish at the top of your class. If you finish at the bottom, you will get what ever is left. Yes, it could be Apaches. It...

It's been done...in the Army. Those of us in the guard were restricted to GO #1 while on det out in Albuquerque, NM for dust landing and mountainous terrain training. The active duty guys were not under the same restrictions. In fact, the AD guys who were there with us from 1st Army drank beers...

Here is a low quality version with a windshield suction cup mount. A little vibration on the ground and going through ETL, but otherwise not bad.

I've used a suction cup mount with a GoPro on the 60M with AVCS and there was little to no shaking.

Newer houses built in Florida after the building codes changed are cheaper and easier to insure. Hurricane Andrew was the impetus for the changes and I think the Florida code changed in 2002 or 2003. When I got my home insurance, USAA wanted to know if it was built after the code was changed...

I’ll throw in my Army National Guard Maintenance Officer version: Briefing and risk assessment consists of a text message saying, “flying, be back at 1600”, not a three hour process that involves contacting the President of the United States just to fly a local flight. Your copilot is always...

Back in the day we were preparing for a change of command. Two days before the CoC, the outgoing CO gathered everyone into the hangar and told us that the XO was not going to be CO and instead we would get another CO. The old XO was being sent off to be the CO of a NAS overseas. Were were told...

Speaking of the wife's input on callsigns: My wife calls me "Iceman". Somehow, it just doesn't sound so impressive with that hint of sarcasm in her voice. Being a Navy brat herself, you should hear her go off on the former Apache pilots in our unit!

My callsign in the Navy was benign. At an LMET course just out of the FRS, we had to write our names on a piece of paper, fold it and put it on the desk. I went by my middle name, but was sometimes required to include my first initial to avoid confusion. My nme tag said "L. Robert". Everyone...

Not to worry Whitely Duvall, a Sea Service Ribbon + Air Medal = Patch. You're good to go! A wont a you a dance wit me at the annual all star a banquet A will a feel so fancy free at the annual all star a banquet Everyone in town will be lookin their best, Even Mrs. Selman with the one extra...

New Flying Warrant: I don't want nobody calling me ''son'' or ''kid'' or ''sport.'' Cool? Warrant Mafia Member: Whatever you say, slick. But I need to tell you something about all your skills. As of right now... As of right now... they mean precisely... dick.

In the Army, if you deploy to a combat theater, you get to wear the unit patch for the *major command you are under on your right shoulder in addition to your current unit patch on the left shoulder. If you have never deployed to a combat theater, you wear nothing on your right shoulder other...

You can call bullshit if you want, but that hasn't been my experience. Once you put on wings, what you did prior to WOCS doesn't mean shit! Everyone is treated equally like shit as a WOJG. If you manage to carry a big chip on your shoulder after WOCS (and I have seen only a few who tried), you...

Army WOCS has a way of removing that chip. If you try to carry that chip through Army WOCS, you will NOT make it, period. It is probably the most difficult thing for candidates to get over...being treated like you are a boot recruit. The Army has a way of doing that to its soldiers at...

Same here in the Army..for warrant or RLO. Neither group has the market cornered on superstars or NTACs.

#1 Sevastopol, U.S.S.R., in 1989 because it was still a part of the Soviet Union then. The history was rich and the people were friendly, despite the Cold War. We took a day trip to Yalta which was spectacular. I spent an evening drinking vodka and talking with Soviet pilots. Pilots are pilots...

I hadn't posted on here about this yet. But I thought some might be interested in my recovery and return to flight status after a somewhat serious injury. Unfortunately this will be from an Army National Guard perspective, but it might be interesting anyway (at least the pictures are). One...

Th Army lost some people about 10 years ago. Tie downs not removed. Gust lock was engaged. Engine started and moved to FLY. Gust lock broke off, rotors started turning. Pilots not strapped in and doors open. Tie downs still on caused aircraft to buck and throw one pilot partially out of aircraft...

Yes, you see the maps as well as symbology. In fact, you can actually convert satellite imagery to be displayed. At Rucker they have a lot of the whole area done that way. We have only a few of the LZs at Camp Blanding.

Welcome to C Co 1-111th..or are you headed to D Co, 1204th or HHC? No printing out maps from AMPS for the M. They are already loaded into the FMS via a PCMCIA card inserted into the DTS.

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Been a member for awhile now.

Yes! Inquiring minds want to know! And as robav8r said, "For who?"

Really? OK..I get it...I called it the S E R V O when I meant to say S E R V O S H U T O F F.

Yes..what you said. But to be clear, the switch to #2 T/R servo does not happen through the shuttle (transfer) valve. I am not sure everyone participating in the discussion understood that. The spec we use in the Army is 3-5 seconds. Since they MAKE everyone count "one thousand one, one...

Cat I = FRP, Cat II = retread from another airframe and Cat III = back in saddle from same airframe...is that correct? Sorry, I'm drilling back over 15 years.

Sister squadron...why not sister service? Thus the HK or maybe HP, they are routinely over at KVQQ.

You could be right. It was never explained to me which component had the issue with each range, just that it was a harmonic issue. Both coasts, but primarily East. I couldn't remember why the Navy said that, but I thought it was related to this warning we have for the Blackhawk: "Restrict the...

That explaination makes more sense. Gravitational sag would be insignificant. Even the shaft itself probably wouldn't deform that much from heat, as the diameter is small and the heat difference between the top and bottom would be small. But the power turbine blades themselves would be...

Does "Superhawk" mean one checklist/NATOPS for all Seahawk models? Is that a proposal or the current practice?

Yet another interesting Army/Navy difference. We do engine washes with the rotor brake off. We have no opertor checklist for the engine wash, so we use the engine manual procedures...which are written to include a hot section wash. The rotor brake is left off so that the power turbine blades are...

I don't know specifically what the regulations say. I am just going on what they put on my DD214 at the end of my first Iraq deployment. According to wiki (not an official source) it appears the Army awards the GWOT 30 days after graduation (boot camp, service academy, etc..) and the NDSM...

Agree...picture is shitty, at least for picking out ribbons. The second ribbon...looks like Iraq Campaign...I can't find an Air Force Ribbon to match...maybe something else?

Is that a Sea Service Ribbon second from bottom, outside edge? His Iraq Campaign ribbon is above his National Defense Service Medal. Maybe this is a poser?

Speaking of "Starter Kits", when you change services, you get almost a totally new "kit" after your first deployment. After my first deployment with the guard to Iraq, I added 5 ribbons just for joining the guard and "being there" (Iraq Campaign, Global War on Terror, Armed Forces Reserve, Army...

I know the guy (PC) and just finished a deployment with him. He is an HH-60M pilot now (CW4). Funny story...we were all (including him) standing in a circle talking about something when a subject came up...can't remember what it was...but it lead to someone saying the quote, "He who is without...

In the Army, you "own" an MTF until it is complete. If there is prolonged troubleshooting, the same MTP stays with it until it is complete, but might, in a rare circumstance, turn it over to a more senior or experienced MTP if they need help. This helps reinforce systems knowledge for the MTP...

To clarify, the delay is actually in the depressurization valve. The electrical relays and #2 logic module determine when the depressurization valve should stay open for 3-5 seconds, allowing the backup pump to come online and to protect the current limiters when neither main generator is...

when I flew the Seahawk, I remember the NATOPS sayng "no more than one inch of collective" when shutting the rotors down. We always bottomed the collective. Does the Navy still do that, bottom the collective on shutdown? The reason I ask is that the Army teaches to always sets 1" of collective...

For the Army MTF, the MTP briefs his crew, then the switch goes to B/U on the ground, the pilot checks for control before lifting off, performs left and right 45 degree turns in a hover, then goes back to NORM while in a hover. The .5 seconds for the backup pump is for either main generator...

Right handed. I have a kneeboard on the right for taking notes, holding MTF checksheets/gradesheets/approach plates, etc...and a velcro strap on my left leg for my MTF checklist. Doing MTFs in the left seat I often set the checklist on the floor to the left of the seat when not in use. Doing...

I would think that if you broke out and were #1 or #2 at your last job and your next FITREP was expected to be a 1 of 1 because of orders, then a short, unimportant job would not be out of the question.

I think I know the guy in the center picture Any idea where it came from?

Yes...sounds pretty cool. The X2 is an example of synergy. Each technology used in the X2 had been used before (counter rotating blades, rigid blades, pusher prop/jet engines, fly-by-wire, and active anti-vibration system). When combined in a synergistic fasion you get an aircraft built with a...

The transition from Army to Navy flying can be challenging. I went Navy to Army. Here is a snapshot of what I did: I flew SH-60Bs in the 80s and 90s. We had no NVGs and flew all our night flights unaided...including landing on the ship. I was a pack kind of guy who broke out probably a little...

For a comparison to my initial Navy training: It took me a year from the time I joined the Guard to the time I got a slot at the Army Blackhawk AQC (essentially the FRS). It was 6 weeks and I flew 30.3 hrs, 10 of which were my initial NVG qual. In the next 6 months I got about 15 hrs each in...

Graduated/commissioned late April 1985. Winged late June 1986. 222.2 hrs in 14 months 3 month stash at the SH-60B FRS in Mayport where I logged another 54.7 hrs from Oct '86 to May '87 So I had a total of 279.9 when I got to the fleet. My first flight out to the ship I would eventually deploy...

I didn't know Jacksonville was a possibility and now I am left wondering why Jax International and not Cecil Field? http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2011-12-30/story/jacksonville-lands-355-million-contract-build-military-planes